the thing about that Anne Lamott quote is that you own the good things that happened too

so yeah I remain hella gay for the lesbian guitarist in The Revolution (yes I’m watching Purple Rain again)

hey cuties! I am EXHAUSTED from Midwest Poetry Mashup but I don't care because COVER REVEAL eternally, cosmically grateful to @justchris.bsky.social for making this book so pretty ✨ I love it and I think you will too THE REST IS UP TO YOU, LOVE comes out on June 2nd

Monday reskeet for anyone who missed this over the weekend. Fiction is a weird new world for me, but writing this felt very good. I have no idea if it is a happy story or not. You tell me.

one week later I got to meet/hug my poetry mentor irl and he wrote this in my copy of his book

look how beautiful

OH HEY ALSO if you do book reviews and you think this book sounds up your alley pls reach out (hello AT bridgetgordon DOT com) ✨💙

Y'all this is 100% a humblebrag but I have to say that my girlfriend is so. Fucking. Cool. And hot, too 😏

this collection is truly beautiful and it was an incredible honor just to be able to read an advance copy, so let me give even more praise: I am bouncing off the walls waiting to be able to start gifting copies of this collection to all my friends

PREORDERS ARE STILL LIVE the reduced $15 price will run through (and include) the release date so get it now while you can! I should be getting copies NEXT WEEK and will start fulfilling preorders shortly thereafter so hurryyyyyyyyyy

hey cuties! I am EXHAUSTED from Midwest Poetry Mashup but I don't care because COVER REVEAL eternally, cosmically grateful to @justchris.bsky.social for making this book so pretty ✨ I love it and I think you will too THE REST IS UP TO YOU, LOVE comes out on June 2nd

lol and then I proceeded to pass tf out after I got home (let me get some coffee in me and I’ll do the thing)

the fight against ICE has never stopped

good morning to texting your girl

I’ve been doing poetry for four days and I’ve gotten like 20 cumulative hours of sleep in that time and also somewhere in there I stayed out until 3am dancing and I still said aloud (to my husband) that I have no idea why I’m so tired

why yes I did write this in the car coming back from Minneapolis for a poetry slam so I could read it at open mic don’t look at me like that

he’s at That’s Poetic again

the grace we count on is each other

but look at the birds

never let it be said that I’d rather be firing arrows at heart-shaped dartboards or in a cave composing polyglot puns. I crave, I long for transforming love

poetry is a kink btw

mornin

good morning to all the things we used to be

corollary: remember why you wrote it

the grace we count on is each other

I don't think there's a ton of slam folks on here, but two I can definitely shout out are @bridgetgordon.gay and @davigray.com, who were both BRILLIANT at tonight's Midwest Poetry Mashup Finals. Really appreciated both of your poems!

before we headed inside neil told me to do the thing I believe in

me and @davigray.com being cute at the slam finals

pretty happy with how this shook out last night

good morning to dancing in the dark

fine I guess my gay tranny life is pretty rad

update

we made it

if we finish 1st or 2nd we’re through to the final

I should probably go out dancing after poems, yeah?

did my shot, put on makeup, made an offering to the ancestors my team has a chance to make the finals and I’m reading the gangbang poem lfg

first time ever at a slam, scored a 27 😎

good morning to my stupid, busted, candy-ass heart

first time ever at a slam, scored a 27 😎

this story is beautiful and filthy and sad and gruesomely honest and nobody is doing it like @harmonwest.bsky.social. do yourself a favor and read this one a few times

holy shit

soon

you heard the deer! make it happen!

this is just over a month away! I just finalized my setlist! 15 minutes of all new material never before performed live by eri! put it in ur calendarrrrrr come support @bridgetgordon.gay and enjoy some fantastic poetry!!!

Minneapolis is super cute

apparently Kuma's Corner is going to start expanding outside Chicago and so I feel obliged to let all of my non-chicago peeps know: Fuck this restaurant. The new owners are cop-humpers. the reputation they once had for some of the top burgers in Chicago is all for naughty; they changed suppliers too

good morning to the things we get lost in

maybe if I drive long enough into the dark it’ll swallow me whole

officially in the “my spouse has to go with me to the bathroom so I don’t get hatecrimed” parts of the country